Washington, Dec 11 : Researchers from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown that polyphosphate from blood platelets have a major role to play in inflammation and the formation of blood clots.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:40:06 -0500

London, Dec 11 : A mysterious glowing white spiral that appeared in the skies above Norway was the result of a failed test launch of a jinxed new Russian missile, says a Harvard astrophysicist who monitors space launches.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:00:09 -0500

Washington, Dec 11 : Will Smith has vowed to keep a check on his "dumbness" when he presents at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway with his wife Jada Pinkett.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:00:07 -0500

Siliguri, Dec 11 : Renowned freestyle footballers from Ireland and Sweden recently attended a nation-wide hunt in India to tap players who have mastered the art of ball control and other manoeuvres here.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:07 -0500

Copenhagen, Dec 11 (DPA) The rift between industrialised and poor nations was growing Friday at the Copenhagen climate summit, as the spokesman for the G77 group of developing nations accused the rich world of undermining the conference.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:00:01 -0500

Washington, Dec 11 : After analysing the works of Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and Herman Melville, Swedish physicists have developed a formula to detect different authors' literary 'fingerprints'.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:30:02 -0500

Oslo (Norway), Dec.10 : The United States President, Barack Obama, on Thursday accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in a special award ceremony here.
ANI Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:10:02 -0500

Oslo, Dec 10 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Thursday repeated that he had been surprised at his win of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, shortly before he was to accept the coveted award in Oslo City Hall.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:12 -0500

Helsinki, Dec 10 (IANS) Finland, the land of Santa and saunas, Thursday showcased its new airport terminal here, equipped with a luxurious spa, well-being services and a modern, well-appointed lounge as its main attractions.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:20:01 -0500

By Vladimir Isachenkov ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW | The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over no...
Washington Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:02:06 -0500

When President Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, a Swedish company controlled the dissemination of his words. Obama's speech was recorded exclusively by Norwegian national television a...
The Seattle Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:42:56 -0500

The BBC's Tom Burridge dines out at a Swedish fast-food chain that is trying to discourage people from eating too much meat by publishing the carbon footprint of each item on its menu.As soon as I am ...
BBC Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:31:53 -0500

The petition, organised by the Met Office's chief executive and chief scientist, comes after the row over e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia (UEA).The petition was e-mailed to scientist...
The Scotsman Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:30:57 -0500

How should the price of climate change be shared by the six billion people around the world? Should the huge lifestyle gap between developing and developed countries remain unchanged from one generati...
People's Daily Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:54:19 -0500

When it comes to attracting people to the overheated topic of climate change, it's never bad to go dramatic. The first few days of the Copenhagen climate summit passed with an awful lot of speeches fr...
People's Daily Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:54:09 -0500

The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing caused spectacular spiralling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway, analysts said.Russia’s defence ministry sa...
Breaking News.ie Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:21:17 -0500

A young Australian climate change activist says she is expecting things to turn violent in Copenhagen, with thousands of protesters vowing to take over the United Nations meeting next week. Wendy Mil...
ABC Australia Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:18:12 -0500

WASHINGTON - Every good speechmaker has an audience in mind. In President Barack Obama’s case, his Nobel Peace Prize lecture was a message to several audiences. Among them: supporters at home and ab...
MSNBC Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:14:41 -0500

Two years ago this week, on the island of Bali, representatives of 180 nations agreed on an ambitious timeline for reaching a global agreement to address climate change. The Bali Road Map, as it was c...
Business Week Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:10:34 -0500

A person with deep knowledge of the negotiations says many developing countries knew in advance about the climate-change provisions they now are publicly protesting.
Los Angeles Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:03:31 -0500

RIA Novosti and Google join forces to save rabbits Countries taking part in a UN climate change conference in Denmark are looking to a meeting of leaders later this month to advance a solution to cuts...
RIA Novosti Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:59:04 -0500

This video footage shows strange lights over a military base in northern Norway. Witnesses say it was a spectacular display, but were left wondering what they saw: A UFO or a Russian military rocket? ...
Gadsden Times Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:45:24 -0500

Veg Climate Alliance urges Copenhagen delegates to recommend shifts to plant-based diets as essential to avert an unprecedented global climate catastrophe. The group cites recent UN and other reports ...
PR Web Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:09:52 -0500

David's Cookies, a New Jersey based Gourmet Dessert Company, has announced the acquisition of Yorktown Bakery LLC effective January 01, 2010. Fairfield, NJ (...
PR Web Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:09:33 -0500

OSLO, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks on Thursday about the role of war in preserving peace disappointed some Norwegians, especially when they came from the mouth of a Nobel ...
SINA Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:09:40 -0500

Negotiators at the historic United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, are making good progress in the area of technology, a senior official with the world body said today.
Spero News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:48:51 -0500

The Norway spiral. A strange light phenomenon is seen in the night sky above Skjervoy in northern Norway early Wednesday. According to some reports, the unexplained light may have been caused by the f...
Christian Science Monitor Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:37:07 -0500

THE THUMBERING HERD We know "texting'' — sending short text messages via cell phone. We recently learned that when lovers send provocative messages, that is called "sexting." So we decided to c...
Pioneer Press Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:08:04 -0500

As Nobel prize winner Obama heads to Oslo to accept his Peace Prize on Thursday, opponents of his escalation of the Afghanistan war promise to demonstrate against him.
Christian Science Monitor Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:54:40 -0500

Copenhagen Delegates left the Bali climate change talks in December 2007 with high hopes that a grand bargain on reducing greenhouse gas emissions would be secured by now. But today, as the latest r...
Christian Science Monitor Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:54:34 -0500

In an interview, Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, says the industry needs a renewable energy mandate from the climate conference in Copenhagen and from Congress.
Christian Science Monitor Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:54:16 -0500

(RTTNews) - Amidst talks of differences in the G-77--the group of developing countries--over demands from small island-nations on proposals of climate-change, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao telephoned Th...
Quote.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:45:23 -0500

The poor are catching up. This is the most obvious message of the Gapminder Foundation, a Swedish non-profit organisation that places vast quantities of economic and social data into online animated g...
Finfacts Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:09:51 -0500

Sappi would shut its Kangas paper mill in Finland and cut 150 staff to better match supply with demand, the firm said yesterday. There would be no supply interruptions during the closure, early in the...
Business Report Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:21:34 -0500

Kevin Rudd has defended the size of the delegation Australia is taking to the Copenhagen climate summit, after reports that the contingent numbers 114.
SBS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:15:55 -0500

If there was a Nobel Prize for Music, Chinese pianist Lang Lang would probably get one. The talented 27-year-old musician is widely acclaimed as one of the world's best piano players. He was also lis...
SINA Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:13:54 -0500

As it was announced that Russian President Dmitry Medevdev would attend, France's environment minister said President Nicolas Sarkozy wants a European target of a 30 percent cut in greenhouse gas emis...
The China Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:24:53 -0500

T he great climate-change money debate is picking up momentum and has emerged as the most serious threat to the success of the Copenhagen summit. Making a summit appearance Thursday, billionaire ...
The Globe and Mail Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:04:24 -0500

Denmark will oppose Tibetan independence and carefully consider China's reaction before inviting the Dalai Lama again, Copenhagen said Thursday in a diplomatic note to Beijing, AFP reported."Denm...
People's Daily Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:32:41 -0500

PRWEB ) December 10, 2009 -- A trio of Senate leaders today outlined the framework of a bi-partisan climate change bill that could pass the chamber early next year. The announcement is expected to bol...
PR Web Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:40:37 -0500

COPENHAGEN - Samoa's Ambassador to the United Nations Aliioaiga Feturi Elisaia says Samoa's 30 member delegation is not in Copenhagen to fill space. "For the Samoa delegation it took them over two da...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:22:45 -0500

COPENHAGEN - Samoa's Ambassador to the United Nations Aliioaiga Feturi Elisaia says Samoa's 30 member delegation is not in Copenhagen to fill space. "For the Samoa delegation it took them over two da...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:22:40 -0500

The White House's top negotiating team landed in the Danish capital today, pledging that they were seeking "robust engagement" with the countries gathered at the Copenhagen Summit. The gr...
Infomatics Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:11:16 -0500

Friday, December 11, 2009 OSLO: Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday informed US President Barack Obama, in Oslo to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, that his country would increase its...
The News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:49:24 -0500

The U.S. economist who predicted in 1972 that the world was facing environmental disaster has ridiculed the Copenhagen climate change summit and says only a series of global crises will incite the wor...
National Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:21:45 -0500

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- George Sorus, Chairman of Soros Fund Management and Founder of the Open Society Institute, said here on Thursday that the gap between developed countries and developing...
SINA Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:39:34 -0500

(RTTNews) - Somali Information Minister Dahir Gelle said Thursday that the suicide bomber who killed over 20 people attending a graduation ceremony in the capital city of Mogadishu last week was a Da...
Quote.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:39:19 -0500

WASHINGTON, DC, December 9, 2009 (ENS) - When President Barack Obama takes part in the high-level talks of the UN conference on climate change next week, his political opponents will be there too, sho...
Environment News Service Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:53:22 -0500

A team of eco-friendlier adventurers in solar-powered boats, cars and trucks are trekking from Sweden to Spain to demonstrate the feasibility of harnessing the sun as a transportation fuel. The...
Wired News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:34:17 -0500

Zenit.org ).- The development of peoples is inseparably linked to the safeguarding of creation, such that one goal must be accompanied by the other, says the Holy See's representative at the United Na...
Zenit Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:18:11 -0500

December 10, 2009 President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday, in Oslo, Norway. He delivered a 36-minute speech and spoke about "the notions of a just war and the imperatives of a j...
NPR Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:08:45 -0500

Helsinki, Dec 10 : Finland, the land of Santa and saunas, Thursday showcased its new airport terminal here, equipped with a luxurious spa, well-being services and a modern, well-appointed lounge as it...
New Kerala Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:08:34 -0500

Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute for an undisclosed price. Seattle Cardiology has clinics in Seattle (three), Redmond, Aberdeen and Port Angeles. Its cardiologists, nurses, lab technologists an...
Business Journal Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:56:57 -0500

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - First draft proposals to scale up global carbon markets, under U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, would soften the rule for project developers to prove their emissions cuts are t...
The Star Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:52:53 -0500

The U.S. economist who predicted in 1972 that the world was facing environmental disaster has ridiculed the Copenhagen climate change summit and says only a series of global crises will incite the wor...
National Post Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:46:24 -0500

A Bulgarian Roma man works on top of a pile of wood coal in the mountain region near Ivailovgrad in this October 2001 file photo. A handful of nations are developing plans to trap and seal beyond reac...
Vancouver Sun Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:45:43 -0500

It is not easy for a political figure leading his country at a time of two wars to speak at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, but President Barack Obama managed to finesse both the irony and the tension...
CFR Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:34:02 -0500

Doctor Who , but a strange spiral observed in the skies above Norway on Wednesday morning was actually a failed Russian missile launch, says a Harvard astrophysicist who monitors space launches.
New Scientist Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:23:21 -0500

Maersk Line will stop a direct connection between Chennai and the U.S. East Coast when its MECL2 service stops calling at southeast Indian port at the beginning of February, the Indian financial newsp...
American Shipper Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:09:29 -0500

Talks under way at the historic United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, have entered the drafting phase towards reaching a final agreement.
Spero News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:17:26 -0500

Day four: As the UN releases its full conference accreditation list, the UK government is vague over its travel plans and Yvo de Boer remains as gloomy as ever...
The Guardian Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:07:33 -0500

Reuters DESPITE the gloomy talk that preceded the UN climate conference, the opening was upbeat. Most big countries had vowed to cut or limit emissions during the previous few weeks. As delegates arri...
The Economist Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:05:13 -0500

Scandinavian officials said Thursday that the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma confiscated by Iran from laureate Shirin Ebadi have been returned, but that her situation remains a "serious concern."...
The Seattle Times Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:03:45 -0500

STOCKHOLM — When images of Barbro Holmberg being rushed to the hospital were broadcast around the world, it was the first glimpse many had ever had of Tiger Woods' mother-in-law. Back home in S...
The Seattle Times Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:55:51 -0500

By the tavern lights, Al Gore serves up frights, to paraphrase a Danny Kaye song. That's why we're not shopping, Mr T. Because we're numb with despair. Because we feel hopeless, bludgeoned by shonky ...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:55:44 -0500

The Swedish Football Federation says the Swedish and Norwegian governments won't fund the countries' joint bid to host the 2016 European Championship. The federation said late Wednesday the governmen...
CBC News Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:50:51 -0500

A Bulgarian Roma man works on top of a pile of wood coal in the mountain region near Ivailovgrad in this October 2001 file photo. A handful of nations are developing plans to trap and seal beyond reac...
Canada.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:50:23 -0500